Publications of J. Kurtz

Kurtz, J.; Scharsack, J. P.: Resistance is skin-deep: innate immunity may help amphibians to survive a deadly fungus. Animal Conservation 10 (4), pp. 422 - 424 (2007)

Kurtz, J.; Kalbe, M.; Langefors, Å.; Mayer, I.; Milinski, M.; Hasselquist, D.: An experimental test of the immunocompetence handicap hypothesis in a teleost Fish: 11-ketotestosterone suppresses innate immunity in three-spined sticklebacks. The American Naturalist 170 (4), pp. 509 - 519 (2007)

Hammerschmidt, K.; Kurtz, J.: Schistocephalus solidus: Establishment of tapeworms in sticklebacks - fast food or fast lane? Experimental Parasitology 116 (2), pp. 142 - 149 (2007)

Krobbach, C. K.; Kalbe, M.; Kurtz, J.; Scharsack, J. P.: Infectivity of two nematode parasites, Camallanus lacustris and Anguillicola crassus, in a paratenic host, the three-spined stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 74 (2), pp. 119 - 126 (2007)

Kurtz, J.; Wegner, K. M.; Kalbe, M.; Reusch, T. B. H.; Schaschl, H.; Hasselquist, D.; Milinski, M.: MHC genes and oxidative stress in sticklebacks: an immuno-ecological approach. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 273 (1592), pp. 1407 - 1414 (2006)

Kurtz, J.; Hammerschmidt, K.: Resistance against heterogeneous sequential infections: experimental studies with a tapeworm and its copepod host. Journal of Helminthology 80 (2), pp. 199 - 206 (2006)

Wegner, K. M.; Kalbe, M.; Rauch, G.; Kurtz, J.; Schaschl, H.; Reusch, T. B. H.: Genetic variation in MHC class II expression and interactions with MHC sequence polymorphism in three-spined sticklebacks. Molecular Ecology 15 (4), pp. 1153 - 1164 (2006)

Kalbe, M.; Kurtz, J.: Local differences in immunocompetence reflect resistance of sticklebacks against the eye fluke Diplostomum pseudospathaceum. Parasitology 132 (1), pp. 105 - 116 (2006)

Hammerschmidt, K.; Kurtz, J.: Evolutionary implications of the adaptation to different immune systems in a parasite with a complex life cycle. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 272 (1580), pp. 2511 - 2518 (2005)

Hammerschmidt, K.; Kurtz, J.: Surface carbohydrate composition of a tapeworm in its consecutive intermediate hosts: Individual variation and fitness consequences. International Journal for Parasitology 35 (14), pp. 1499 - 1507 (2005)

Jacot, A.; Scheuber, H.; Kurtz, J.; Brinkhof, M. W. G.: Juvenile immune status affects the expression of a sexually selected trait in field crickets. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 18 (4), pp. 1060 - 1068 (2005)

Kurtz, J.: Specific memory within innate immune systems. Trends in Immunology 26 (4), pp. 186 - 192 (2005)

Jacot, A.; Scheuber, H.; Kurtz, J.; Brinkhof, M. W. G.: Juvenile immune system activation induces a costly upregulation of adult immunity in field crickets Gryllus campestris. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 272 (1558), pp. 63 - 69 (2005)

Kurtz, J.: Memory in the innate and adaptive immune systems. Forum in Immunology: Toll-like receptors, pp. 1410 - 1417 (2004)

Scharsack, J. P.; Kalbe, M.; Derner, R.; Kurtz, J.; Milinski, M.: Modulation of granulocyte responses in three-spined sticklebacks Gasterosteus aculeatus infected with the tapeworm Schistocephalus solidus. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 59 (2), pp. 141 - 150 (2004)

Field, S. G.; Kurtz, J.; Cooper, E. L.; Michiels, N. K.: Evaluation of an innate immune reaction to parasites in earthworms. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 86 (1-2), pp. 45 - 49 (2004)

Wegner, K. M.; Kalbe, M.; Kurtz, J.; Reusch, T. B. H.; Milinski, M.: Response to comment on "Parasite selection for immunogenetic optimality". Science 303 (5660), p. 957b - 957b (2004)

Kurtz, J.; Kalbe, M.; Aeschlimann, P. B.; Häberli, M. A.; Wegner, K. M.; Reusch, T. B. H.; Milinski, M.: Major histocompatibility complex diversity influences parasite resistance and innate immunity in sticklebacks. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences 271 (1535), pp. 197 - 204 (2004)

Hammerschmidt, K.; Kurtz, J.: Following a parasite through its life cycle: how though is it to cope with different immune systems? International Journal of Medical Microbiology Supplement 293 (Suppl. 38), p. 53 (2004)

Wegner, K. M.; Kalbe, M.; Kurtz, J.; Reusch, T. B. H.; Milinski, M.: Parasite selection for immunogenetic optimality. Science 301 (5638), p. 1343 - 1343 (2003)